John Fries’s Rebellion

[caddyman]

As you know, I never¹ do memes. Having seen this one on mr_h_r_hughes’ LJ (who in turn ganked it from shaunotd), I decided it looked fun enough that I should condescend to have a go.

Go to the Wikipedia home page and click random article. That is your band's name.
Click random article again; that is your album name.
Click random article 15 more times; those are the tracks on your album.

Band Name: John Fries’s Rebellion
Album Name: Issac Luke sic

Track listing:
Judith & Holofernes
Benjamin Stephenson House
List of SoE Agents
The Meaning of Soul
Bruce Campbell
KROI
Red-tailed Laughing Thrush
Douglas Gageby
Valve Cover Racing
Plastic Bending
Vic Mizzy
Windeyer County, New South Wales
Lewis K Rockefeller
Eagle Electric
Fall Apart

This looks to me like some kind of electric-country-folk combo. Probably a 5 piece band with a pool of regular guest artistes, active between 1968 and 1976. I am tempted to make something up, including perhaps am second album and putting them onto MySpace just to see if anyone ever notices that they are fictional…


¹”Never” in the sense of “rarely” or almost never. [ahem]

Comments

[oldnick.livejournal.com]

This is a lovely concept - but where's the 'random' on the wikipedia home page?

http://www.wikipedia.org/

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Go to the home page, click on "English" and then in the navigation bar on the left there is a 'randon article' option.

[kathbad]

I love the myspace idea - I would friend them *g*

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

I think I may have a go at the weekend when I have a little time: I Need to find some generic 60s and 70s band pics that I can use.

Muh hah haaaa...

[ladkyis.livejournal.com]

Do you have the lyrics to Douglas Gageby? I am sure I used to sing it years ago - please bear in mind that I am the person who thought that Robert Palmer was singing something called Dickhead to Love

[immerwahr.livejournal.com]

I'd be tempted to say that this is exactly the album that you would would own, and I would run away from. That said, if British Sea Power don't ever record tracks called List of SOE Agents or Red-Tailed Laughing Thrush then I'd be shocked.

Is it just me, or does every tracklisting on this meme sound like it's already been released by BSP or Ween (depending on the UK/American random bias)?

Ah, just me then.